Originally Posted by Dude
... you might come to believe such nonsense as "the ancestors/founders of the US were largely English and motivated by a quest for freedom from religious prosecution,"
While you may disagree, labeling my post as "nonsense" is insulting and violates Board Rules. Please provide sources which inform your view as to the motivation... here are some which inform my view that motivation included freedom from religious persecution:
1) Library of Congress, Religion and the Founding of the American Republic - America as a Religious Refuge
2) PBS - Destination America - Why did they come?

Originally Posted by Dude
... or that a man whose name is given to a national holiday, the national capital, five US counties, and 12 US cities is somehow inconsequential to US history.
There is also a South American Country of Colombia... and the Canadian Province of British Colombia. While not "inconsequential" to events which unfolded 300 years later on a separate landmass... just not part of the United States due to separation of time and space.